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Survive the Summer With These Low-Tech Tips
I used to be a big fan of Red Green, the Canadian guy with that car-modification show where he'd always reach for a roll of duct-tape
In the 80s, Japanese Dudes Drove Power Rangers
Japan is well-known for spawning multitudes of sub-cultures within any cultural sphere, be it music, fashion, and even cars. Japanese car culture, tortured movies like Tokyo Drift aside, is filled with so many derivatives, offshoots, and homages that...
Buy This Half-Ton Transformers Wine Rack On Craiglist
Well, if this isn’t just the craziest damn living room furniture in history. An apparent crazy person in Phoenix built a wine rack slash giant freaking robot out of old automotive parts that literally takes up a living room. It weights half a ton. Now...
"Bridge" Peers Into the Soul of New York's Finest Crossings with Contact Microphones and Super 8
I don't live in New York City, but I love its bridges. I love the combination of babies in strollers on the pedestrian walkway of the Manhattan Bridge with brutal engineering and subway trains. I like that on the bridges you're touching a big empty...
Catapults and Jalapeños: The Ingenious Smuggling Tech of the World's Top Drug Kingpin
For a semi-illiterate grammar school dropout, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is a bloody mastermind. Guzmán, 55, sits atop Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, which by all accounts is arguably the richest, most powerful crime syndicate in history. That's him on...
PopSci + Motherboard ^ Video =
One solution to the above equation could be Mom and Pop's Video Sci-Board. A more exciting one is the new partnership we're launching today with "Popular Science":http://PopSci.com. We're opening our fat archive of videos to the OG of science magazines...
Motherboard TV: The Indestructible Body Armor of Troy Hurtubise
Troy Hurtubise is an extreme human. There’s really no other way of putting it. After surviving a brief bout with a grizzly bear in the backwoods of British Columbia in August 1984, Hurtubise could’ve scampered back to civilization all whimpering...
The Indestructible Body Armor of Troy Hurtubise, Pt. 2
h4. _Part II of III. Be sure to check out "Part I":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/6/11/the-indestructible-body-armor-of-troy-hurtubise-pt-1._ Troy Hurtubise is an extreme human. There’s really no other way of putting it. After surviving a brief...
The Indestructible Body Armor of Troy Hurtubise, Pt. 1
Troy Hurtubise is an extreme human. There's really no other way of putting it. After surviving a brief bout with a grizzly bear in the backwoods of British Columbia in August 1984, Hurtubise could've scampered back to civilization all whimpering...
Afiq Omar Makes Acid-Dosed Analog Graphics With Science, Not Software
Watching “Ferienne” by analog motion graphics artist and Singapore native Afiq Omar must be an intimidating experience for any videographer. Part three in a series focused on understanding “fluid dynamics, magnetism, and natural invisible forces,” the...
SketchSynth Lets You Draw Your Own Synth on Paper
For those who regularly (or even no so regularly) like to mess around with noise, you know that the equipment that comes with it is sometimes cumbersome and often comes with annoying fixed interfaces. That’s one of the things SketchSynth, a new project...
Lomography Brings 110 Film Back From the Dead, Spy Cameras Returning To a Subway Near You
You can get a camera that shoots 110 film for basically nothing right now; even a brand new way-cool 110 Holga can be had for $7.99 on eBay. The film itself, however, is a different story. Expect to spend around $15 for an expired roll, and a blank...